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U.S. writer Safran Foer, in J'lem, discusses his craft
By Haarertz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Jew, U.S., Literature 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for May 15, 2008.

Acclaimed Jewish American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, who this week took part in the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, discussed his fiction against the backdrop of the Old City's walls.

Foer's first novel, titled Everything Is Illuminated, was lauded by critics and in 2005 was made into a film staring Elijah Wood.


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